Chapter 15 Weapons

Chapter 15 Weapons

Chapter 15 Weapons
In the morning, Xu Qing woke up from his hardwood bed. A few days ago, due to his introduction to Crane Posture, Xu Qing had been in deep sleep at night.

I had a rare "nightmare" last night.

I didn’t dream about the troubles I would encounter next, but I dreamed about waking up and returning to my “previous life”.

Too scary!

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary cow or horse without any injuries.

In this life, although there is a survival crisis at present, there are also infinite possibilities.

"Fortunately it was just a dream." Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, then got up and left the hut.

Last night, Li Gongwu came back from drinking, and Zhou was skillfully making him a sobering soup. As for Xu Qing's medicinal food, it had already been prepared and was being kept warm on the side.

It is late spring now, and the weather is still cold.

The medicinal food made with Liuwei Dihuang Decoction is suitable for drinking on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.

Xu Qing finished a full bowl of medicinal soup, which also contained stewed chicken, and also drank a bowl of yam porridge, and immediately felt full of energy.

"Aunt, your cooking skills are getting better and better."

Zhou smiled and said, "You are all making progress. I, a woman, cannot hold you back at home."

Xu Qing: "Aunt, you have too much housework to do by yourself now. I was thinking, let's buy a maid, what do you think?"

Zhou: "Our yard is too small, and now we have neighbors to help us every day, so it's not tiring at all. When we move to a bigger place in the future, I plan to give your uncle a concubine."

If Li Dianshi himself took a concubine, having a woman from outside come into the house would be somewhat of a threat to Zhou.

As the mistress, she took the initiative to take a concubine for her husband. From then on, the concubine's life or death depended on her mood.

Xu Qing smiled and said, "Aunt has found a good place. After I finish the Tongsheng exam, we will find a chance to move there."

Zhou: "We have a lot of places to spend money now, so we can rent a large yard nearby."

Xu Qing: "Don't worry, auntie, let's just buy it. As for the money, I will find a way after Tongsheng has tried it."

As long as you have connections and backing, it is very easy to do business in this era. Moreover, Xu Qing does have several business ideas that are suitable for this era.

Now is not the time to be busy with these things, so there is no need for Xu Qing to start worrying about them now.

What's more, women like others to promise them something.

Especially in his previous life, most of the women Xu Qing met had demands that could probably only be met by a liar.

Xu Qing's few words made Zhou smile happily.

When Zhou was happy, she would not nag Xu Qing at home, which made Xu Qing worry-free for the whole day.

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Xu Qing was still in the yard, doing his daily morning exercises.

Today's plan was different from previous ones. He tied sandbags to all four of his limbs.

After mastering the Crane Posture, his limbs became strong and his steps became light. After tying the sandbag, Xu Qing tried to practice the Crane Posture again, and the difficulty suddenly increased a lot.

Firstly, he was not used to it, and secondly, his center of gravity had changed. Xu Qing discovered that his small success in the Crane Posture mainly strengthened his limbs, but the improvement in the core strength of his torso was far less obvious than that of his limbs.

Without a strong torso, the advantages of strengthened limbs will naturally be wasted.

“Although the Crane Posture can also train the torso, it is not the main attack direction after all, and it lacks explosive power.” Xu Qing has a soul at the "hatching" level, and his judgment of the body is not comparable to that of ordinary martial artists like Li Gongyu.

The more he analyzed, the more he felt that, in addition to its own shortcomings, the Crane Shape Posture should have other supporting skills.

Strictly speaking, the Crane Posture is mainly for health preservation, and hitting and escaping are side effects after strengthening the body.

"There's no rush about this. Let's practice the Crane Posture to perfection first." Xu Qing knew that his Crane Posture was only a small success and there was still a lot of room for improvement.

And he values ​​the crane-shaped pile's ability to improve speed and agility the most.

If you encounter any unfavorable situation, the ability to escape is the most important thing.

No matter how good you are at fighting, how many people can you beat?
If the opponent uses bows, crossbows, or weapons, your fists will be useless no matter how strong they are.

And he must carry a bag of quicklime with him when he goes out later. This routine is old, but classic and useful.

what.

He is good at running away and carries a bag of lime with him. It sounds like the character of Wei Xiaobao.

You can't blame him, it's the world's fault.

Who told him that he didn’t have Six Meridians Divine Sword or Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to learn?

Soon, Xu Qing put aside all distractions and concentrated on practicing the Crane Posture. After getting through the initial stage of discomfort, Xu Qing's "absolute concentration" state naturally opened up, and in this state, his "understanding" was greatly improved.

During the practice, Xu Qing relied on his own efforts to find the details that could be adjusted in the Crane Posture at this stage.

These details may seem to have insignificant effects, but they can improve the overall effect of training. When accumulated, the effects are even more obvious. After improving the details, his movements become more comfortable and smoother.

Even with sandbags tied to his limbs, he still performed as standard and beautifully as before.

From this, it can be seen that the strength of his limbs is much stronger than before.

After Xu Qing finished practicing, he broke out in a sweat and directed the newly generated heat into his limbs. This time, he was careful and kept half of the heat in his torso to see what effect it would have later.

He is not afraid of wasting heat.

Because before practicing, I drank the medicinal food.

After the heat comes out, the medicinal power has been completely digested, so the amount will naturally be more than usual.

And the strengthening of the body must be balanced as much as possible. If the short board is too short, even if the long board is long, it will have a significant impact.

After digesting the heat, Xu Qing felt that he could do another set.

However, he was not in a hurry. Instead, he followed the steps and after expending his mind to guide the heat, he recited "The Great Learning" once. After the reading ended, Xu Qing's slightly tired spirit was restored.

He didn't know how people who practiced Taoism could nourish their spirits. But after reading and immersing himself in it, he was naturally able to calm his mind, and the effect of nourishing his spirit was self-evident.

In his previous life, he had studied the ancient nobles who read the classics tirelessly. Even when they were old and frail, their minds were still clear. Not many people became confused in old age.

For example, Yan Song, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, became the chief minister when he was about 60 years old and worked in this position until he was 80 years old. As an old man, he managed to maintain his position in the brutal political struggle and defeated most of his political enemies.

Even more famous is Sima Yi, who was able to launch a coup when he was about seventy years old and lead his troops to pacify Liaodong before his death.

Zhuge Kongming, a contemporary of Sima Yi, was even more powerful. He turned Sima Yi, an aggressive offensive master, into a defensive master who was feared by the Shu Kingdom like a tiger.

These people have maintained their sharp minds even after they have grown old. Their common feature is that they are all outstanding scholars of their time.

After finishing the morning class, Xu Qing discovered that Li Dianshi did not show up for duty today.

"Aunt, uncle hasn't gotten up yet?"

"You drank too much last night." Aunt said unhappily.

Xu Qing frowned: "Today Zhao Xiong and his party are going to release the silver from the treasury. How can my uncle not watch over it at this time?"

Zhou was panicked when she heard this: "I called him, but he said he had a headache and couldn't get up. He drank a bowl of hangover soup but it didn't work. I called him again."

After Xu Qing heard this, he made some calculations in his mind and said softly to Zhou: "Aunt, if you call him like this..."

Upon hearing this, Zhou looked at Xu Qing strangely, but then did as he was told.

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On the bed, Li Gongpu was falling into a deep sleep again, when he suddenly heard a voice beside his ear: "Li Gongyu, the master is about to go to court. Why don't you go and stand in the court? You are dragging your feet. Do you want to be beaten?" It was followed by a "weiwu" with a long tail.

Li Gongyu was startled and stood up like a carp.

He immediately broke out in a cold sweat and looked around. It looked very familiar, but it was not a court.

"Madam, you..."

"Uncle, I asked my aunt to do this."

Li Gongyi: "It's Qing Ge'er, you got up so early."

Xu Qing: "Uncle, look where the sun is now, it's still early."

Li Gongyu's face turned red when he heard his nephew's unusual sarcasm. He then quickly got up and washed up.

Xu Qing followed and ate some breakfast, which was all whole grain bread and some seasonal vegetables. In this season, there were pickled bamboo shoots and mustard greens, which were very refreshing. Mustard greens were the symbol of spring.

There is a poem that says: The peach and plum trees in the city are worried about wind and rain, while spring is blooming in the shepherd's purse flowers by the stream.

In his previous life, it was difficult for Xu Qing to eat the pure natural, pesticide-free organic mustard greens that he has now.

It has to be said that the Yu Dynasty in recent years seems to have entered a mini ice age. It is clearly late spring, but it is colder than the early spring in Xu Qing's previous life.

The situation in the south is relatively better, but in the north it is either flooded or dry.

There were no large-scale uprisings, but small-scale uprisings occurred all the time.

Another characteristic of the Little Ice Age is that the Hu people in cold areas would fight for their lives even more desperately.

Although it seemed like a peaceful and prosperous time, the seeds of internal and external troubles had already been sown.

Therefore, even if the government escorted the official silver, it was not so safe. This also led to the rapid development of the escort industry.

After all, the escort agency is more willing to put down its face and pay homage to the leader.

How could officials pay homage to bandits and pirates?

Although everyone collects protection fees, there are different levels. Officials are obviously the highest level of those who collect protection fees.

Li Dianshi finished his breakfast quickly.

"Uncle, I'm going out with you."

"You want to go to the government office too? Qing'er, what do you want to do?"

"I want to go to the yamen with you to see if there are any discarded weapons and find a weapon that suits me." Li Dianshi is now in charge of public security and prisons. Although he has no rank, his actual power is quite great.

It is difficult for ordinary people to make weapons, but for Li Gongyu now, it is just a matter of words.

In addition to carrying lime with him, Xu Qing must have a weapon for self-defense.

You can do without this, but it cannot be absent.

Although Zhao Xiong and his men hadn't caused any trouble for the time being, there was still a trace of evil in their destiny, and it was possible that it would revive at any time. Moreover, even if Zhao Xiong knew how to handle the situation, his subordinates might not be smart enough.

In political struggle, don't think your enemy is too smart.

In the past, when the largest country held a presidential election, people would directly carry out assassinations.

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Li Dianshi worked with Dong Dahai in the government office to complete the handover of the treasury silver. There was no disturbance in the middle, but when Zhao Xiong was about to leave, Xu Qing suddenly asked, "Uncle Zhao, have you killed anyone?"

Zhao Xiong's reaction was one of surprise. He seemed not to want to get entangled with Xu Qing and the others, and he left in a hurry, saying, "I have always been law-abiding, and I would never kill anyone."

Seeing Zhao Xiong leave in disgrace, Dong Dahai said with a smile: "Nephew Xu, how can he admit it if you ask him like this?"

Normally speaking, the leader of a local evil force like Zhao Xiong would definitely not take human life seriously and would be cruel.

But Xu Qing asked that deliberately just now, but found that Zhao Xiong's emotional reaction was very strange.

He now has a strong ability of observation, and his soul is powerful, and his perception of people's emotions is not comparable to that of ordinary people.

If it was the legendary Zhao Xiong, his reaction just now was too strange.

Xu Qing felt that Zhao Xiong was not real, but acting. He did not have the mentality of being a boss who did not take human life seriously.

"There really is something fishy going on." Xu Qing judged secretly.

But it was just his pure conjecture, and no one believed it.

Xu Qing said to Dong Dahai: "Uncle Dong, I was just joking with Uncle Zhao."

Li Dianshi coughed and said to Dong Dahai, "The child is ignorant and made a fool of himself."

Dong Dahai said with a smile: "I think nephew Xu is very smart, and he is a man of good character. He will definitely pass the examination for the position of a student."

After some polite exchanges, Li Dianshi took Xu Qing to the county government's weapons warehouse.

The things inside will be damaged after being kept for a long time, so it is not even a matter of misusing public power for personal gain to pick up some broken weapons.

But after Li Dianshi arrived at Hyogo, the yamen guarding Hyogo felt like they were facing a powerful enemy.

They didn't know why Li Dianshi suddenly came to Hyogo.

Li Dianshi found one of their squad leaders and said directly: "I want a broken weapon that is on the loss list. For example, a waist knife or something like that."

The squad leader breathed a sigh of relief. He almost thought that Li Dianshi came to take inventory of the arsenal.

"Is it for the Dianshi or this young man?"

"Me." Xu Qing said.

The squad leader said: "I don't have any broken weapons, but I have a dagger here, it's very sharp, I want to give it to you, sir."

He took out a dagger from his arms and pulled it out with the blade facing himself. A cold light came out, dazzling people's eyes.

"Good stuff!" Li Dianshi blurted out, and then he looked at Xu Qing: "How is it?"

Xu Qing nodded: "Uncle, take this."

Li Dianshi: "According to the system of this dynasty, all weapons that enter the civilian population must be registered. I will register them for you later."

In fact, rules are rules, but no one actually enforces them.

However, Li Dianshi always had to say something nice in front of the class leader.

Xu Qing: "Okay, Mr. Dianshi." He winked and asked Dianshi Li to take him away.

Li Dianshi then took Xu Qing away.

The runners guarding the Hyogo all breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially the leader of the yamen runners, Zhang Bantou, patted his chest and said, "That was a close call."

He had the warehouse opened, and found only some broken wood piled up inside.

The slackening of military preparations in Qingshui County was not a one-day thing, but the petty officials in the county, in collusion with the yamen runners in the warehouse, blatantly resold the weapons.

Anyway, when you need to check, you can just borrow some more to make up the number.

The advantage is that if you encounter rebellious religious bandits, you won’t be able to get their weapons even if you capture Hyogo.

The bad thing is that it is very likely that these weapons have already been sold to those who want to rebel!

(End of this chapter)